Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
In anticipation of the need to create more intensive care unit (ICU) beds during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) updated its statistics on critical care resources and put forward a strategy for augmenting staff.
As hospitals struggle to make do with a limited supply of face masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE), government and private entities are taking steps to address the problem.
Seattle’s University of Washington health system, UW Medicine, and its affiliates are sharing resources they developed as the first providers and administrators to encounter COVID-19 on U.S. soil.
This policy brief is the collaborative effort of nursing leaders who propose and support academic-practice partnerships between health care facilities and pre-licensure registered nursing (RN) and practical/vocational nursing (PN/VN) programs across the country during the COVID-19 crisis. This is…
As part of the federal response to COVID-19, Vice President Mike Pence announced this week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will take steps to allow nurses and other medical personnel to practice outside the states where they are licensed.
This month Headspace, a guided meditation and mindfulness app, began offering health care professionals free access to its content. In addition to short guided meditations, the app includes information about the benefits of meditating, breathing exercises to reduce stress, and guidance on…
An immunologist at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, Md., is working to develop a blood-derived treatment for use against COVID-19. The technique uses antibodies from the blood plasma or serum of people who have recovered from the infection. If all goes well, the team says, it may be…